Chapter 40 Textbook Writing

After some haggling, it was finally agreed that Rand would lease the ten horses and pay the lease fee every six months.

Ellie and Olenna had no way to deal with Rand, who was unwilling to pay for the war horses. After all, they were near the hideout and had no way to sell the war horses to anyone other than Rand.

In the entire Crescent Territory, Rand's base is the only force that has the ability to consume this batch of war horses.

And even though they don't say it, they naturally classify themselves into the den camp at present. In fact, even if there are other forces, they will not do anything to aid the enemy.

After agreeing to Rand's lease, Olenna and Ellie skillfully took over Rand's work, including the lease of the warhorse.

There is also the task of writing textbooks. When Ellie heard Rand's instructions, she rolled her eyes and said, "So you haven't done anything during this period of time?"

Rand smiled awkwardly. Actually, he had accomplished a lot. At least the construction of the holiday villa was progressing steadily. It was just that he had no idea where to start with some of the teaching materials.

"What kind of teaching materials do you use to learn literacy and mathematics?"

Ellie looked at Olenna, who nodded and said, "I was responsible for Ellie's education before. Let me do it."

"It's not like I didn't do nothing." Rand scratched his face.

Olenna didn't care how much Rand did. Such simple chores were not what a leader should do, but since Rand said so.

She was also very willing to see what Rand had done. This envoy of God always had some very novel ideas. "Then let's talk slowly?"

Ellie glanced at the two people who were about to discuss teaching materials and was not very interested. She now had to quickly deal with the chores at hand and supervise the training of the army.

Due to the increasing abundance of resources at this stage, Rand has selected some full-time soldiers for training, and the first batch of people in the Fengrang Mercenary Group arranged for Taner are full-time soldiers.

Now we need to speed up the training of the second batch to recruit Taner, otherwise, with the current size of the Fengrang Mercenary Group, it will be difficult to really catch the eyes of those great nobles.

Just as Ellie began to deal with official documents, Rand took out a booklet in front of Olenna.

After opening it, there were some strange symbols on it.

Rand pointed to the symbols above and said, "I call this simple mathematics."

Olenna was confused and waited for Rand's explanation.

"At the beginning, they only need to learn the simplest arithmetic." Rand needs to train grassroots officials, not mathematicians, so the mathematics written in the booklet are the most basic.

The numbers in this world are the same as the Arabic numerals in Rand's previous life, so there is no need for Rand to invent a new type of numbers.

Rand simply used a bar to indicate the quantity represented by the number to make it easier to understand.

These were all things Olena could understand; they were simple and easy to understand, and met the standards of elementary education materials.

But soon, the eyes of this swordsman, who had superb swordsmanship and considerable academic level, began to show surprise.

As for mathematics, Rand only required them to learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within 100, and nothing else was necessary.

So Rand deftly added the multiplication table.

Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within 100 can be solved perfectly as long as you are proficient in using simple addition and subtraction basics and the multiplication table!

Olenna didn't understand it immediately, but after Rand's explanation, she soon understood the magic of the multiplication table.

Troublesome multiplication problems suddenly become simple and efficient.

After understanding it, Olenna looked at Rand with a puzzled look: "Isn't it completely written? Why are you so modest?"

When I saw Rand's look before, I felt that he had done nothing, but now it seems that is not the case at all. He prepared the math teaching materials so quickly, and used his extraordinary wisdom to create this strange but definitely useful multiplication table.

Rand scratched his face in embarrassment, because he knew nothing about the other part of the textbook. His understanding of the characters in this world came entirely from the benefits of being a time traveler. He could understand and write, but had no idea what was going on.

Olenna immediately understood the situation. It was normal that she didn't know how to write teaching materials to teach people how to read. She could do it.

The most important thing at the moment was to ask more about mathematics. Since graduating from the Royal Academy of the White Country, she had never been so eager to learn: "Would you like to talk more about mathematics?"

Chosen by the White King Calant as the swordsmanship instructor for his younger sister, Olenna is naturally not only good at swordsmanship, or her academic attainments may even be better than her superb swordsmanship.

Being pestered, Rand had no choice but to mechanically answer some of Olena's questions. As a college student majoring in agriculture, his math was not bad. But he could not stand Olena's constant questioning. This secretary was really too smart, and he felt that he would be drained soon.

Olena didn't dwell on it for too long, after all, she knew there was still a long way to go.

She didn't think that Rand's knowledge came from the goddess of abundance. She had done some research recently and found out that the sect of the goddess of abundance was a pure cult, the most evil kind that would sacrifice living people.

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But today, the Feng Rang sect is completely invisible, except for the old doctrines that have been completely abandoned and some believers who have the blessed characteristics of the Feng Rang sect.

So in fact, Olenna is more inclined to believe that Rand is a liar. She has actually chatted with those followers of the Abundant Rage sect, and many of them joined the Abundant Rage sect earlier than Rand.

She asked more carefully than Taner, and therefore learned some more detailed information, such as that Rand seemed to have been captured as a sacrifice at the beginning.

As for why he later became the so-called messenger of God, there may be a thrilling story behind it.

Because of this speculation, it was difficult for Olenna to regard the den as a cult. Now it seemed that it was just a group of ordinary people who wanted to live a better life.

After confirming the camp attributes of the den, many of Olenna's barriers to this place disappeared, so she was willing to see the den develop better.

After parting with Rand, she went to the sacrificial room office to handle official business with Ellie.

Then, they returned to their residence. Although they had experienced the embarrassing photo-taking incident before, Ellie and Olena still lived together.

This not only makes work more convenient, but also gives you a greater sense of security when living together in a foreign country.

Ellie was lying on the bed. As her reputation in the hideout camp had increased, Rand had someone put a wool blanket on their bed.

Looking at Olena who was writing textbooks by the oil lamp, Ellie muttered, "Olenna, did Rand take your soul away? Why are you so serious? We are working for free, why are you working overtime?"

Ignoring Ellie's teasing, Olenna threw her a booklet with Olenna's densely written notes on it: "Lord Rand is more powerful than we expected."

Looking at the densely packed notes on this booklet, which should have been easy to understand, Ellie was surprised for a moment, then somewhat relieved: "I know Rand is very powerful, but it seems that there is no chance to recruit him to the White Kingdom now."

"But!" Ellie changed the subject, "You still haven't explained whether you were possessed or not?"

Olenna rolled her eyes and continued to ignore Ellie's teasing. She wanted to finish editing the teaching materials as soon as possible. When Lysa came back, she would probably launch a small battle, and there would be more things to do then.

(End of this chapter)